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Anne Jones

Nov 09, 2018

Anne Jones has been appointed as CEO of Genomics Medicine Ireland. She joins the company from Danaher, where she was vice president and general manager for the Pall Corporations Lab, Food, and Beverage business. Prior to that, she was vice president of strategy and business development at Agilent Technologies. She also held various marketing and R&D roles at Amersham Biosciences in the UK and at GE Healthcare Life Sciences in the UK and the US. Jones holds a undergraduate degree in microbiology and molecular biology from the National University of Ireland and a PhD from Cancer Research UK.

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